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elroyjetson

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Pragmatic Techno Utopian. Former Humanist. Relapsed technologist. Currently: System Administrator and I do some programming when the planets align. I still teach history part-time.

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ricmac, to random
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Quantum computing has taken over from AI as the tech that seems highly promising, but also has been not quite there for years now. I did a series of posts 2 years ago, and I still receive a stream of news in my inbox about it, but it still seems a ways off. e.g. "...today announced a significant milestone on the path to commercially relevant quantum systems. While many existing quantum architectures achieve entanglement within modules, [this co] has demonstrated entanglement between modules."

elroyjetson,
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@ricmac And the scifi dystopian view of quantum computing in the Devs series. One the upside it is my new favorite scifi series though I am very late to the show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devs_(TV_series)

mattwilcox, (edited ) to vim
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Ok, #nVim / #vim and Telescope... I find it bizarre how it auto-ignores anything listed in a .gitignore file.

I still want to find and edit things like .env files, they just shouldn't be in Version Control.

And editing Telescope to explicitly allow certain file names even if they're listed in .gitignore seems to be impossible. Which leaves you choosing to show all hidden files, which I absolutely don't want because node_modules etc I never want.

Is there a neater way I've missed?

elroyjetson,
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@mattwilcox it looks like you can set up a separate keybinding to override the default behavior of fd to use the -no-ignore flag:

-- Custom function to find files ignoring .gitignore
local function find_files_ignore_gitignore()
telescope.builtin.find_files({
find_command = { 'fd', '--type', 'f', '--no-ignore' }
})
end

-- Bind the custom function to a key
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap('n', '<leader>fg', "<cmd>lua find_files_ignore_gitignore()<CR>", { noremap = true, silent = true })

elroyjetson, to random
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So the big question is, with PC's finally coming out with an ARM chip, will we see an explosion of Linux laptops running ARM?

elroyjetson, to random
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I really hate finding out about a great scifi series after it has been cancelled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devs_(TV_series)

matt, to random
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The average iPhone user has a Windows computer, not a Mac. I feel like this is something we in the Apple enthusiast space forget like…all the time.

elroyjetson,
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@matt Yet given Microsoft throwing its weight behind Android says something about Android doesn't it?

kev, to random
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Jesus effing Christ, why is soooooooo slow to sync shit?!

elroyjetson,
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@kev

There are some puzzles that weren't meant to be solved.

matt, (edited ) to random
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Does anyone know of a Safari extension that lets me create custom keyboard shortcuts for doing specific actions? Whenever I try using it again, I’m frustrated with some things I’ve gotten used to in Arc.

ANSWERED: Thanks to @TheMikeBurke for this excellent Keyboard Maestro macro that does the CMD+Shift+C I love. I can also recreate some other shortcuts in a similar fashion.

https://mastodon.social/@TheMikeBurke/111811472783156155

elroyjetson,
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@matt Um...it is one more key stroke different. Is it just a mental hurdle of having to press cmd twice?

Arc = 3 keys
Safari = 4 keys

video/mp4

popey, to random

A new episode of Linux Matters is out. In which we use unfold AI to generate code, use NextCloud in anger, and sit down with a Cozy book... Enjoy

https://linuxmatters.sh/20/

elroyjetson,
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@popey Did you install NextCloud as a snap or from a download?

matt, to random
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Apple 2023 report cards: Vision Pro 🕶️ https://birchtree.me/blog/apple-2023-report-cards-vision-pro/

elroyjetson,
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@matt Well put! These two things really sum up the success or failure of Apple Vision Pro:

"1. Something I can’t do today with my iPhone, iPad, or Mac
2. Something I can do on my other Apple devices, but in a way that’s clearly better than what I already have"

I would settle for one or the other but both would hit it out of the park.

mattwilcox, to random
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I really wish iPad ran OSX. It’s a handy physical format, and I like my (ancient) “get the cheapest one to see” 6th gen 32gb iPad. It’s still reasonably snappy feeling. But… the OS just makes it useless as a computer device. Which I want it to be. I need filesystems. And UNIX tools.

elroyjetson,
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@mattwilcox I have tried so hard to use the iPad as my only device. Failed every time. Too sandboxed. Everything just feels like a work around. (Similar experience with Desktop Linux).

elroyjetson, to random
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I think I have a pathological, yet subconscious, need to associate with the underdog. I was advocating RedHat when everyone was for Debian, I advocate for Ubuntu now that everyone is for RedHat. I am fickle and do not want to work on RHEL. I would love to work at an Ubuntu only enterprise. I don't do Windows, though I have tried WSL. I assume such a position is as mythical as a unicorn.

elroyjetson,
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@mattwilcox I understand that. I have given thought to going back to straight Debian as well. I get Canonical is a for profit company and they are trying to make Ubuntu self sustaining with services.

popey, to ubuntu

I dual-boot installed on my Apple M1 Macbook Air. I find myself using Ubuntu more than macOS since then. The only thing I have used macOS for is Zoom calls. 🤷
https://ubuntuasahi.org/

elroyjetson,
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@garybowers @popey Here is a talk from Ubuntu Summit 2023 that explains it all. https://www.youtube.com/live/XIGxKyekvBQ?si=Yzv3s8XK5RsVTAHX&t=20273

davew, to random
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I asked ChatGPT to explain how OPML is used for lists of feeds. I was blown away by what it came back with. I literally said "holy fuck" out loud on every single bullet point.

https://chat.openai.com/share/6e0ad9be-d6dd-4255-bab2-2082e4203e22

elroyjetson,
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@davew The link to the OPML list that ChatGPT generated doesn't seem to work. - http://scripting.com/2023/09/15.html#a141018

nicole, to random
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Snipd is a free podcast player app for iOS and Android (mobile only) that I've been using for the last few months, and I figured it was time to talk about it! It's the only way I'm listening to podcasts now, mainly because it's so easy to bring my notes from podcasts into @obsidian.

Jump the waitlist for the Snipd AI Podcast Notes feature: https://www.snipd.com/ai-podcast-notes?invitationCode=NICOLE
Here's an example of what Podcast Notes look like: https://share.snipd.com/episode-takeaways/6eb18522-d1f3-4a09-aa81-d6a07bd9f770

The video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ierImyE5pgU&feature=youtu.be

elroyjetson,
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@nicole This is great, but normally I am walking while listening to a podcast and all I really want it to add a bookmark to a location in the podcast to go back and review later. Now that would be useful. Similar to the way the Audible app works.

JoeRess, to random
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The things we feel like we are missing in Linux, and what we miss from Linux when we use proprietary platforms.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-47/

elroyjetson,
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@JoeRess I just finished the episode and am trying to figure out the hate toward MacOS Finder. I took a look at Thunar and I really can't find much difference. Is it simply the out of the box defaults are not right for you or is it missing some functionality? It seem nearly the same as Thunar to me at least based on this: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/the-file-manager-window

elroyjetson,
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@JoeRess Interesting. My home server is Ubuntu 20.04 and finder loads both an NFS share and SMB share nearly instantly.

elroyjetson,
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@JoeRess I will have to do some testing. I don't have anything on my current share in excess of 100 files. The hundred files opens instantly but maybe it doesn't scale.

elroyjetson,
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@JoeRess I haven't run across this either. I have tried to clone large git repos on a smb share and it is significantly slower, but I have't established if the cause is network or my slow ZFS pool.

elroyjetson,
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@JoeRess Yeah on the mac is is CMD+o to open the file or space bar to quick look. You are right, enter is rename

elroyjetson, to random
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Having been in my twenties during the whole grunge movement in the 90’s…it is weird to hear Nirvana playing on the outside speakers at the grocery store.

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